Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)

27.1 Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty

Review of the interim funding for Vertebroplasty and new review of Kyphoplasty for the treatment of vertebral compression fracture

Reference No.

27.1

Application NameVertebroplasty(REVIEW) - Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for the treatment of vertebral compression fracture
Advisory PanelProfessor Ken Thomson
(Chair)

(MSAC member)
Dr Kwun Fong
(Deputy )
(MSAC member)

Dr William Clark
(Radiology)

Dr Murali Guduguntla
(Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists nominee)

Dr Adrian Nowitzke
(Neurological Society of Australasia nominee)

Professor Philip Sambrook
(Australian Rheumatology Association nominee)

Professor Bryant Stokes
(Neurosurgery)

Ms Valerie McKeown
(Consumers' Health Forum of Australia nominee)
Date Received by MSAC Secretariat22/09/2009
Stage 1 - EligibilityEligible
Stage 2 - AssessmentIn progress
Stage 3 - Formulation of Advice to the Minister
Stage 4 - Decision
Stage 5 - Implementation

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